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Sit & Get Won’t Grow Dendrites
by Marcia L. Tate
Strategy # 1 Brainstorming and Discussion
Strategy # 2 Drawing and Artwork
Strategy # 3 Field Trips
Strategy # 4 Games
Strategy # 5 Graphic Organizers
Strategy # 6 Humor and Celebration
Why did the teacher wearsunglasses to class?Because her class was so bright!
What did the trianglesay to the circle?You have no point.
What did the 30 degree angle say to the 105 degree angel?Don’t be so obtuse.
Strategy # 7 Manipulatives and Models
Strategy # 8 Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes
AnalogiesMacaroni : pasta :: monkey : mammalDenominator : fraction :: stem : flowerFive : ten :: eight : sixteenAnkle : foot :: wrist : hand
Similes•As good as gold —Charles Dickens•My heart is like an open highway – Jon Bon Jovi•A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle – Irina Dunn
Metaphors•That new worker is pretty green. One's life ripens with experience. •The guy is a rock. Certainty is a solid.•She's quite a catch!
Strategy # 9 Mnemonic Devices• My Very Enthusiastic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Nothing
(The planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth , Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
• HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)
• People Really Hate Eating Donuts And Cold Cider. (seven steps in the scientific method. Problem, Research, Hypotheses, Experiment/Data, Analyze, Conclusion, Communicate)
• MAIN (4 main causes of WWI – Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, Nationalism)
• Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Order of operations in math – Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction)
Strategy # 10 Movement
Strategy # 11 Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap
Strategy # 12 Project- and Problem-Based Instruction
M is f or Mississippi. The Mississippi River is the largest river in the United States and the third largest in the World. I t stretches f rom Lake I taska to the Gulf of Mexico covering 1,150,000 square miles. Some cities in I owa that border the Mississippi are Dubuque, Davenport, Fort Madison, Keokuk, Clinton, and Burlington. Some facts about the Mississippi are: I n 1993 it was the biggest flood in the whole upper Mississippi, and that in 1927 was the biggest flood in the whole lower Mississippi. Did you know that there is a place in the Mississippi that is so polluted that nothing can live there? Or, did you know that it is not safe to eat fish that live in the Mississippi because of the pollution in the water?
Resource: Encarta’2000
Strategy # 13 Reciprocal Teaching, Cooperative Learning,
and Peer Coaching
Strategy # 14 Role-Plays, Drama, Pantomimes, and Charades
Strategy # 15 Storytelling
Strategy # 16 TechnologyDate # Eggs
Collected# Eggs Sold
Total # Eggs
Total Sales
8/19/06 14 1 doz 3 doz +8 $1.00
8/20/06 3 2 doz 1 doz + 11 $2.00
Strategy # 17 Visualization
Strategy # 18 Visuals
Strategy # 19 Work Study and Action Research
Strategy # 20 Writing and Reflection
Thank You!
This presentation was prepared for you by Carolyn Wiezorek with the help of many talented students.